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1Sahil Badruddin = ""It is difficult to say with certainty when the veil was adopted by the rest of the Ummah, though it was
most likely long after Muhammad’s death. Muslim women probably began wearing the veil as a way to
emulate the Prophet’s wives, who were revered as “the Mothers of the Ummah.” But the veil was neither
compulsory nor, for that matter, widely adopted until generations after Muhammad’s death, when a large
body of male scriptural and legal scholars began using their religious and political authority to regain the
dominance they had lost in society as a result of the Prophet’s egalitarian reforms."-No god but God, Reza Aslan "

2Sahil Badruddin = ""[The Aga Khan] is interested in the
current debate on whether the hijab, the Muslim headscarf, should be worn in
Irish schools and
cautions against
the issue being used to create division:•"'My
own sense is that if an individual wishes to associate publicly
with a
faith, that's the right of that individual to do that, whether
he's a
Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. That is, to me, something which is important. But he says that people should not be forced
to wear the hijab:•"'To
go from there to an imposed process by forces in society, to me is
unacceptable.
It's
got to be the choice of the individual who wishes to associate
with his faith or her faith. I have great respect for any
individual who
wants in the right way to be associated with his own faith. I accept that totally and I would never
challenge it”-His Highness the Aga Khan's 2008 Irish Times
interview with Alison Healy
(Maynooth, Ireland);
http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/8845/
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